Trump was reported to be obsessed with what’s written and said about him in the media. Attacks on him there, whether real or imagined, are very distressful for him. And even if Trump knows that negative publicity can be good for business, he wanted to have full control over his image.

Trump has even lied about being honest. When asked about the possibility of becoming a politician he said: “It’s not my thing. I think I’m too honest in many respects. I have great respect for a great politician. It’s not easy to be a great politician, but I think I would do a good job [as president].”

Trump has lied so often that its not even newsworthy when he tells another. There is such a constant drumbeat of obvious untruths coming out of this administration that any one lie seems inconsequential. But every lie matters, even on issues that, for now, are dormant. Take healthcare, for example, on which Republicans once again failed this week after the Graham-Cassidy Repeal and Go Fuck Yourself Bill was yanked off the Senate floor because it didn’t have the votes.

Yet, President Trump declared yesterday that it didhave the votes, if it wasn’t for that one senator in the hospital.

Trump’s statement was a lie for at least two reasons. Cochran was not in the hospital, and even with Cochran’s vote, Republicans could still not muster enough votes to repeal Obamacare. It was Republicans John McCain, Rand Paul, Susan Collins who all announced they would oppose the bill. Lisa Murkowski, who opposed previous versions, had not yet declared her position. With three Republican “nays” and all Democrats in opposition, the bill was dead. Cochran and his medical status had nothing to do with the vote.

That didn’t stop Trump from simply saying, over and over again, that “we have the votes.”

JAN. 26 “We’ve taken in tens of thousands of people. We know nothing about them. They can say they vet them. They didn’t vet them. They have no papers. How can you vet somebody when you don’t know anything about them and you have no papers? How do you vet them? You can’t.”(Vetting lasts up to two years.)

JAN. 26 “I cut off hundreds of millions of dollars off one particular plane, hundreds of millions of dollars in a short period of time. It wasn’t like I spent, like, weeks, hours, less than hours, and many, many hundreds of millions of dollars. And the plane’s going to be better.” (Most of the cuts were already planned.)

JAN. 28 “The coverage about me in the @nytimes and the @washingtonpost has been so false and angry that the Times actually apologized to its dwindling subscribers and readers.” (It never apologized.)

FEB. 6 “The failing @nytimes was forced to apologize to its subscribers for the poor reporting it did on my election win. Now they are worse!” (It didn’t apologize.)

FEB. 6 “And the previous administration allowed it to happen because we shouldn’t have been in Iraq, but we shouldn’t have gotten out the way we got out. It created a vacuum, ISIS was formed.” (The group’s origins date to 2004.)

FEB. 16 “They’re giving stuff — what was said at an office about Hillary cheating on the debates. Which, by the way, nobody mentions. Nobody mentions that Hillary received the questions to the debates.” (It was widely covered.)

FEB. 27 “Since Obamacare went into effect, nearly half of the insurers are stopped and have stopped from participating in the Obamacare exchanges.” (Many fewer pulled out.)

FEB. 27 “On one plane, on a small order of one plane, I saved $725 million. And I would say I devoted about, if I added it up, all those calls, probably about an hour. So I think that might be my highest and best use.” (Much of the price cut was already projected.)

MARCH 22 “Well, now, if you take a look at the votes, when I say that, I mean mostly they register wrong — in other words, for the votes, they register incorrectly and/or illegally. And they then vote. You have tremendous numbers of people.” (There’s no evidence of widespread voter fraud.)

MARCH 29 “Remember when the failing @nytimes apologized to its subscribers, right after the election, because their coverage was so wrong. Now worse!” (It didn’t apologize.)

MARCH 31 “We have a lot of plants going up now in Michigan that were never going to be there if I — if I didn’t win this election, those plants would never even think about going back. They were gone.” (These investments were already planned.)

APRIL 2 “Now, my last tweet — you know, the one that you are talking about, perhaps — was the one about being, in quotes, wiretapped, meaning surveilled. Guess what, it is turning out to be true.” (There is still no evidence.)

APRIL 6 “If you look at the kind of cost-cutting we’ve been able to achieve with the military and at the same time ordering vast amounts of equipment — saved hundreds of millions of dollars on airplanes, and really billions, because if you take that out over a period of years it’s many billions of dollars — I think we’ve had a tremendous success.” (Much of the price cuts were already projected.)

APRIL 11 “I like Steve, but you have to remember he was not involved in my campaign until very late. I had already beaten all the senators and all the governors, and I didn’t know Steve.” (He knew Steve Bannon since 2011.)

APRIL 29 “As you know, I’ve been a big critic of China, and I’ve been talking about currency manipulation for a long time. But I have to tell you that during the election, number one, they stopped.” (China stopped years ago.)

APRIL 29 “We’re also getting NATO countries to finally step up and contribute their fair share. They’ve begun to increase their contributions by billions of dollars, but we are not going to be satisfied until everyone pays what they owe.” (The deal was struck in 2014.)

APRIL 29 “When they talk about currency manipulation, and I did say I would call China, if they were, a currency manipulator, early in my tenure. And then I get there. Number one, they — as soon as I got elected, they stopped.” (China stopped in 2014.)

APRIL 29 “I was negotiating to reduce the price of the big fighter jet contract, the F-35, which was totally out of control. I will save billions and billions and billions of dollars.” (Most of the cuts were planned before Trump.)

MAY 1 “First of all, since I started running, they haven’t increased their — you know, they have not manipulated their currency. I think that was out of respect to me and the campaign.” (China stopped years ago.)

MAY 2 “I love buying those planes at a reduced price. I have been really — I have cut billions — I have to tell you this, and they can check, right, Martha? I have cut billions and billions of dollars off plane contracts sitting here.” (Much of the cost cuts were planned before Trump.)

MAY 4 “Number two, they’re actually not a currency [manipulator]. You know, since I’ve been talking about currency manipulation with respect to them and other countries, they stopped.” (China stopped years ago.)

JUNE 1 “I’ve just returned from a trip overseas where we concluded nearly $350 billion of military and economic development for the United States, creating hundreds of thousands of jobs.”(Trump’s figures are inflated and premature.)

Given the lies about repeal of Obamacare, it is obvious that Trump isn’t even worried about being proved to be a liar. Today Trump announced his new tax plan. What a surprise that he lied about tax cuts for the wealthy.

Howard Gleckman of the Tax Policy Center, probably the single best source for tax analysis, writes that the plan “may cut taxes modestly for some middle-income households, but it appears to be a far bigger tax cut for high-income households.”

Benjamin Franklin said:

“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

I think that we can add a third: Death, taxes, and Trump will tell more lies.

One thought on “Trump’s Boldest, Most Outrageous Lies : Healthcare and Taxes”

What ever happen to a bar of soap in the mouth or tabasco sauce in the kisser for lying? Teaching children right from wrong, do not lie cheat or steal, say thank you, be respect to others, be kind? Grow up and become a good citizen?

We are most certainly at a crossroads and presently held up by gangsters, mob and outlaws. I’m a bit old fashion and my ancestors go back to the beginning and making landfall, breaking bread with our friends the native American peoples and Spanish. Many lived with and friends with peoples before the exodus of white families fleeing UK. Everyone in America should know their Ancestry.

So? What kind of example and influence is mr drumpt to our children with his direct outright lies? Look at the death and destruction this liar has already caused.
It is up to parents, public school systems, public fiqures to teach the basics for a sound society of respect, manners, morals and self worth. We cannot allow dictators and those of less ethics to degrade and criminalize our society and children.